Whistle-blower site taken offline — A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. — Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.

HD-DVD - They think it's all over — The message from Japan this morning is that the HD format war isn't over - Toshiba says “We are currently assessing our business strategies, but nothing has been decided at this moment.” But you'll struggle to find anyone in the business who believes …

DailyMotion Adds HD Video - Is YouTube Falling Behind? — Leading French video sharing site DailyMotion announced this morning that it is now supporting HD video upload and playback. It follows art-video site Vimeo, where HD was added in October. — YouTube's Steve Chen told Liz Gannes …

Dailymotion - in High Definition, in a new player! — The best content deserves the highest quality video, and it is in this spirit that Dailymotion has always sought to privilege its outstanding creative community with superior encoding. — For more than a year-and-a-half …

BlackBerry Maker Sues Motorola — Research in Motion is suing rival Motorola, alleging that the company infringed on several of its patents and tried to extract “excessive licensing” fees from patents Motorola owns.

RIM and Motorola suing each other for patent infringment — We're not sure Motorola's turnaround strategy should involve picking legal fights with an undisputed market leader, but now that CEO Greg Brown's personally in charge, it looks like the gloves are off — Moto's just filed …

Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results — As of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of Pirate Bay's pages. For some mysterious reason, several pages from the tracker disappeared from Yahoo's index. Unintentionally or not, a search for “The Pirate Bay” doesn't show a link …

MacBook Air: Rambling First Impressions (PG!) — Lots of people have asked for my impressions, so I thought I'd post a more sober (literally) look at life with my little MacBook Air. With no cussing! — • It feels really nice, like a pebble. A large, smooth pebble, from a stream.

Rumor: iPhones, iPod to be $100 cheaper very soon? — Are you one who's been wanting that iPhone or iPod Touch but on a budget? You might be in luck within the next two months, there are rumors (of course) swirling that Apple is planning a $100 price drop across the board.

‘Cancer link’ to heavy mobile use — Heavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests. — Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls.